Good Neck Pick-up for a Les Paul - that you can coil tap?

[LukeWinship]

Hi guys,

Any ideas on a great Neck Pick-up that you can coil tap? I am looking at some of the Bareknuckles Steve Stevens but i'm not sure if i can 'tap' them. They will go in my trusty 2002 Les Paul Std.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Cheers

[slowpokerhino]

From what I understand, the lower the output of the pickup the better coil tapping works, as in sounds better in split mode. I have no first hand knowledge though.

[Kyle]

From what I understand, the lower the output of the pickup the better coil tapping works, as in sounds better in split mode. I have no first hand knowledge though.

Usually it is the opposite, higher output pickup, better SPLIT coils. Reason being you split a 9k humbucker, you get a weak arse 4.5k single coil. You split a 13k bucker, you get a 6.5k single coil. Still not all the way there due to extra magnet pull and all that jazz but you get the point.

You won't find coil taps on a humbucker, but any 4 conductor humbucker can be coil split. I have a set of these, wired up series/screw coil/parallel. They split pretty good. Any bareknuckle can be orderred 4 conductor. Those pickups are pretty nice too, I used it for all the rhythm on my latest recording, broke out the ASAT for the leads though, it had something in clarity.

[slowpokerhino]

That makes sense. Thanks Kyle.

[BluesDoggydog]

Ive got a 57' classic in my neck that i can tap and a burstbucker 3 in the bridge, bouth sounds really good in singlecoil mode, gives quite a telecaster feal but a bit more ballsy. I use a Les paul traditional pro.

-- Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:10 pm --

Ive got a 57' classic in my neck that i can tap and a burstbucker 3 in the bridge, bouth sounds really good in singlecoil mode, gives quite a telecaster feal but a bit more ballsy. I use a Les paul traditional pro.

[juzi]

I have a Fralin 8k/9k set in my LP Std and I like the splitted neck HB very much. Didn't like the split in bridge PU though. If I remember correctly, Fralin had something called the Unbucker, which they recommend for splitting. It has unbalanced windings on coils and therefore a brighter and clearer sound in HB-mode too.

[Kyle]

I have a Fralin 8k/9k set in my LP Std and I like the splitted neck HB very much. Didn't like the split in bridge PU though. If I remember correctly, Fralin had something called the Unbucker, which they recommend for splitting. It has unbalanced windings on coils and therefore a brighter and clearer sound in HB-mode too.

The thing to watch with non-symmetric coils is ofcourse they won't humbuck 100%, usually they are left close enough you won't notice though. Dimarzio has a lot of assymetric coil buckers.